Safestarts is obviously creating a lot havoc out there, since so many people come to this blog searching for relief from its tenacious hold over their computers. Safestarts is scareware and malware. It extorts money from its victims by displaying dire warnings and alerts about finding spyware and adware on the computer. This is a [...]

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Many of you are coming to the Ducktoes Spyware blog to find out about Safestarts. It is a rogue anti-spyware site. By rogue I mean anti-spyware that is really spyware itself. You pay Safestarts to protect your system with their Virus Ranger or Antispy Kit or MalwareWar and guess what? You get more spyware!!! In [...]

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Using Firefox is one of the best ways to prevent spyware. And it is free. Since Firefox has far fewer users than Internet Explorer, most malware creators don’t bother with making spyware for it. They want to get the most bang for their buck and effort. So, since much less malware for Firefox on the [...]

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I found a great site that checks files for viruses. If you have a file on your computer that you worry might be a virus. You can upload it here to be scanned by several (32, I think) different virus scanners. I checked out a file called “Good Karma” a friend, Joyce, received as an [...]

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This is a sidetrack. Lots of people ask me how they can start a blog. It really is quite easy. But if you feel daunted by the set up process, I can make it easy for you. Of course I designed and maintain this blog Ducktoes Spyware Blog. I use WordPress. And I also designed [...]

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Today I’m removing (from an Acer laptop) a trojan called Win32.Renos. It causes false alerts on the desktop purporting to be from Windows. If you click on the alert, the trojan then downloads a rogue anti-spyware called Win SpyControl, AntiSpy Kit, and Virus Ranger. The alert looks like this or some other warning: The rogue [...]

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This is Part Five of a five part series about how to speed up your computer. Here are the other four posts. Why should you clean the registry? The registry is a listing of all the settings and options in Windows. They are listed in the form of “keys”. When the registry gets cluttered with [...]

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I’ve discovered a free file sharing P2P that doesn’t come bundled with adware or spyware. It is Xolox. Xolox also scans downloading files for viruses. So if Ms. Ducktoes (that’s me) still hasn’t convinced you to quit using P2Ps, at least switch to Xolox. I hope my sons, Joe, Peter, Ben, and John, are reading [...]

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